The Career Center promotes the development of SJSU students as professionals by providing
the tools to guide them in making career-planning decisions and marketing their skills
to employers and satisfying the needs of the employment community and complement the
academic curriculum.

The Center for Community Learning & Leadership (CCLL), formerly known as the Center
for Service Learning, is a part of Office of Undergraduate Studies responds to a call
in higher education from university presidents, government, and the California State
University, San Jose State institutionalized community learning within the academic
program. The CCLL helps students develop the knowledge, skills and motivation to become
lifelong participants in public life in an informed, committed and constructive manner,
with a focus on solving community problems.

Established by Associated Students in July 2005, the Cesar E. Chavez Community Action Center (CCCAC) connects SJSU students with community service opportunities that deepen the educational
experience while promoting the lifelong commitment to civic activism at the heart
of the Cesar Chavez legacy.

Civics Works Initiatives (Sociology)

The Civic Works Initiative (CWI) provides students, faculty, and citizens with strategies
against unemployment, expands and supports a regional and national partnership of
academics, students, community organizers, environmentalists, and faith-based organizations
to promote long-term economic and social development. The CWI provides vital media,
educational and advocacy support in addition to train and cultivate its growing network
of student advocates at SJSU and across the country through various service-learning
opportunities and events.

The Community Change Concentration offers courses focused on social change concepts
and movements, and social issue analysis leading to social action. Most courses have
service-learning, internship, and/or community-based research projects which have
extended community partnerships and engagement, in such key areas as homelessness,
poverty, affordable housing, worker rights, immigration, and financial literacy for
community development.

CommUniverCity San Jose is a collaborative project of the Five Wounds/Brookwood Terrace
communities, San Jose State University (SJSU) and the City of San José. SJSU concentrates
service-learning classes in these neighborhoods in cooperation with the Neighborhood
Advisory Council and the City and will continue to do so for a three to five year
period with the broad goals of building community in the neighborhoods and engaging
students in civic life.